The MSOM Society Student Paper Competition: Extended Abstracts of 2004 Winners

Abstract

As is our tradition at the journal, we are pleased to publish the extended abstracts from the winners of the 2004 MSOM Student Paper Competition. We do this to celebrate the achievements of these young scholars and provide you with the opportunity to learn about their work in more detail. The 2004 prize committee was chaired by Professor Phil Kaminsky (University of California, Berkeley). The other committee members were: Naren Agrawal (University of Santa Clara), Hyun-Soo Ahn (University of Michigan), Damian Beil (University of Michigan), Fernando Bernstein (Duke University), Izak Duenyas (University of Michigan), Wedad Elmaghraby (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jeremie Gallien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Teck Ho (University of Pennsylvania), Seyed Iravani (Northwestern University), Ananth Iyer (Purdue University), Eric Johnson (Dartmouth College), Roman Kapuscinski (University of Michigan), Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Institute of Technology), Anton Kleywegt (Georgia Institute of Technology), Özalp Özer (Stanford University), Georgia Perakis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University), Sridhar Seshadri (New York University), Max Shen (University of California, Berkeley), David Simchi-Levi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jay Swaminathan (University of North Carolina), Terry Taylor (Columbia University), Beril Toktay (INSEAD), Scott Webster (Syracuse University), and David Wu (Lehigh University).